gutsy - dual monitor problem - ati X1300

[Marius Gedminas]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Adrienn Dora Varszegi wrote:
> I have been struggling to get my 2 monitors working in extended mode under
> 7.10
> - Wide Flat Panel E228WFP 22" and one is a normal 19''
> - ATI X1300 Radeon

There are two ways to approach this:

  1. Use the open driver.  Setting up dual-head this way is described
     in the Ubuntu 7.10 release notes, which provide two documentation
     links:

       http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html
       http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12

     The first documentation page talks about Intel video cards, but
     that's okay, the new radeon driver uses the same configuration
     mechanism.  Perhaps some details may be different (e.g. output
     names).

     I think the wiki.debian.org one is clearer.

  2. Use the restricted driver.  I know nothing about it.

> I tried enabling the restricted drivers and following the instructions in
> the Ubuntu Docs:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic restricted-manager
> 
> After enabling the restricted drivers and reboot the system became dead
> slow. So I had to restore xorg.conf

Okay, so way (2) doesn't work for you.  That still leaves way (1).

> I also tried playing around the 'Screens and Graphics' admin console:
> - the 22'' monitor was the secondary monitor
> - exact type (Dell - E228WFP) was present in the list
> - the resolution options were not for a wide-screen monitor for.

Oh, I didn't notice this one.  It seems to be incredibly broken, at
least on my hardware.  I'll go report some bugs.

> Actually I am not after shiny effects but I really would like to get the
> monitors work..

Ask again here, if the documentation I pointed at seems too obscure.
Also, we could make the advice more concrete if you posted the output of
the 'xrandr' utility.

> I am most grateful for any suggestions,
> Dora, the newby

Regards,
Marius Gedminas
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